This is the second in a series of blog posts leading up to my presentation on Clustering at CFUnited on June 20, 2008 at 2:00PM. Clustering has been available to us in two apparently different forms. Hardware Clustering and Software Clustering. I say apparently different as some digging reveals interesting items, particularly as they relate […]
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CFUnited – High Availability & Clustering Presentation – Part 1 – An Overview Of Clustering
I will be presenting at CFUnited on Friday June 20, 2008, on the subject of High Availability (HA)-Clustering for ColdFusion/JRun applications and I intend to make this as practical as possible. Having spent many years travelling the world helping to fix slow or unresponsive ColdFusion applications, I see HA as a natural progression to this […]
"A Snapshot of Entrepreneurs"
Miki Saxon as always, has a keen sense of the business world. While many people would like to believe that the majority of the latest, greatest corporation founders are 20-somethings who just end up with a great business. People constantly hear about stories in which mere kids are becoming gazillionaires when they may not have […]
June MDCFUG Lunch
Many apologies for last months’ confusion about the date of the MDCFUG Lunch. It seems there is an annual holiday, something called Memorial Day, that the United States Government decided should be held on the day I originally planned lunch. The nerve! I have done days and days of research that no such holiday will […]
TeraTech Culture
TeraTech, with our milieu of expert programmers and developers, is able to solve complex problems with grace and speed. We are on the forefront of ColdFusion development, constantly contributing to the CF community with training, tips and tricks, as well as conferences. Since the 1989 inception, we have made a name for ourselves as the […]
Clustering and fail over for CF and SQL Server
We were recently working on a site that was growing rapiding in traffic. How should it be clustered and why? In putting together this recommendation we took into account the anticipated increase in traffic volumes and also are striving to avoid too much distribution of assets across a network. By avoiding the use of Network […]
Crowd Chess
Is one single person smarter than an enormous group of people? Is a crowd better at making decisions than one trained expert? Crowdchess.com is taking this idea and putting it to the ultimate test, a mass exhibition of the ultimate strategy game where it is literally the world versus chess Grand Master Gawain Jones, one […]
Where Did teratech.come From?
I sat down with TeraTech President and Co-Founder, Michaela Light, to truly understand the vision behind TeraTech. From its 1989 inception TeraTech (partially a play on “Microsoft”, micro = one millionth, terra = one trillion) has proved itself as experts in ColdFusion and gurus at solving complex web based problems. In 1989, Light, originally from […]
TeraTech Training Class Schedule
TeraTech offers training classes for ColdFusion and Fusebox for every skill level. This months highlighted class is ACT 101 – ActionScript 3 for Flex Developers Taught by Theo Rushin, Jr., this course introduces the Flex developer to the Actionscript 3.0 programming language. The course starts by covering basic syntax and working with variables; moves through […]
CFUnited 2008 Update
TeraTech is in total conference mode. Everyday we are getting closer to this years CFUnited (June 18th – 21st) and everyone in the office is getting more and more excited. There’s still a bunch to get done, and everyone is excited about the new location in DC This year will be the best year ever […]